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abortion, 310

Academia Sinica (Zhongyang yanjiu yuan), 76–77

advertising: false, 291; medical, 83–84, 291, 291n54; radio, 11, 280, 282, 290–91; in Shanghai funü, 306

Alcott, Carroll, 287, 287n32

Alliance française, 265

Alliance of the New Medicine Trade and the Pharmaceutical Industry (Xinyaoye zhiyaoye lianhehui), 72n11

Allies, strategy of, 200

All-Shanghai Federation for the Support of Armed Resistance, 283–84, 287, 298

alum, 129

Archives of the Self-Defense Research Institute (Tokyo), 157n1

Arnhold, Harry, 231, 252

Asano Kazuwo, 292–93, 294, 296

Asia Development Board, 30, 34n79, 246

assassination: attempts on British officials, 244; of collaborators, 197, 235; of communist targets, 97; of Lu Bohong, 52; of Mao Liying, 99–100; reported on radio, 287n32; of Shao Shubai, 211; threats of, to Great Way Government personnel, 178–79; wars, 98, 116, 142

Associated American Industries, Ltd., 53

Association for the Chinese Labor Movement (Zhongguo gongren yundong xiehui), 219

Association for Worker Welfare (Fuyihui), 215–16, 219, 221

Association of Shanghai Industrialists (Shanghai gongye tongzhihui), 27n37

Association of Shanghai Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (Shanghaishi zhiyao changye tongye gonghui), 72

Aurore University, 271


Badlands, 224n37, 234. See also extrasettlement road area

Bai Wei, 343

Baillie, Paul, 270, 270n27

Bangkok, 70

Bankers’ Guild, 163

banking, 47, 68, 74, 194, 203

Banking Study Society (Yinhang xuehui), 40n111

Bank of China, 54, 74, 203

Bank of Communications, 203

Banyue (Half Moon bi-weekly), 334

Baoding Military Academy, 161

Baodong, 131

baojia system: instituted by Great Way Government, 179; in model peace zones, 141–42; mentioned, 250; and rice supplies, 121n24, 127; in the Western District, 173n30

Baoshan: counterinsurgency activities in, 142n129; and Great Way Government jurisdiction, 170; pacification teams in, 160, 160n2, 174; self-government committees, 174

Baowei Zhongguo datongmeng (Protect China Alliance), 107

Ba qian li lu yun he yue (Eight thousand miles of clouds and moon; Shi Dongshan), 346, 348

Barnett, Robert, 18

Barrett, E. I. M., 233n6

Basic Treaty, 197

Bataillon mixte d’infanterie coloniale de Chinese, 265

Bataillon Supplétif Tonkinois, 265, 271

Battle for Shanghai (1937), 119, 193, 205, 257, 318

Battle of the Muddy Flat, 234

BAT tobacco union, 220, 220n26, 220n27

Baudez, Marcel, 262

Bayer, 76n20

beans, 126

Beijing, 70, 158–59, 263

Beiping-Suiyuan Railway, 132

Beiqiao, 170

Benton, Gregor, 110–11

Bernez Cambot caserne, 265

Bian Qini, 334n14

Bing Xin, 332, 342, 343

birth control, 314

black market: British businessmen and, 253–54; and food shortages, 11; for gold, stocks, bonds, and cotton futures, 120; in grain, 121, 122; used by small workshops, 42; in supply of goods to Communist base areas, 102; under Wang Jingwei regime, 37. See also smuggling

blockade: American-led, of 1941, 245; of Fujian and Zhejiang, 29n51, 35; as literary metaphor, 326; mentioned, 2, 27, 34, 41, 92

Blue Shirts, 179, 224

boat captains, 93, 94, 101. See also shipping

de Boissézon, 267

bombing: of Great World Theater, 2, 3; of Japan, 118n7; of Pudong, 303; of Shenxin mills, 50; in Zhabei, 21

bookstores, 85, 92

Borneo, 38n98

Bougon, 266

boundary zones, 128–130

Bourdieu, Pierre, 110n38

Bourne, K. M., 241, 247

bowing, 119

bribery, 29, 84, 104–5, 130

Bridge House, 252

Brionval, Henri, 269

British businesses: and collaboration, 9, 242; engaged in black market trade, 253–54; taken over by Japanese, 246; transnationals, 230, 240; after the war, 253–54

British diplomats, 229, 231–32

British Foreign Office, 232, 238–39, 246, 251, 253

British intelligence, 238

British land forces, 198

British settlers. See Shanghailanders

broadcasting industry. See radio

Broadcast Radio Supervisory Office (Guangbo wuxiandian jiandu chu), 292

Brook, Timothy, 262

brothels, 250

Buddhism, 162

building materials, 30n59

Bureau of Military Statistics. See Juntong

Bureau of Social Affairs, 24, 210; puppet, 123, 181, 220

Bureau of Statistics and Investigation (Zhongtong), 100, 194

business barometer, 26

Butterfield and Swire, 242


cafés, 124

Cai Chusheng, 346, 348

Cai Hongtian, 189, 190, 199

Cai Lian, 24n31

calendar, 169–70

Calico Printers’ Association, 235n17

Cameron, George, 252

Canidrome, 265n12, 271

Canton, French concession in, 264

Cao Da, 101n20, 102, 108

Cao Mengjun, 309n16

Caojin District Maintenance Committee, 173n30

capital, 4, 29, 41. See also Chinese capitalists

cartoons, 83, 83n44, 86, 280–81, 281

Catalogue of Superior Medicines from Star Brand, 80n33

Cattand, George, 267

CC Clique: defections to Wang Jingwei, 189–90, 198–99; and the Guomindang underground, 188–190, 212; and labor, 210, 220, 220–21n27, 222, 226; protected New Asia’s distribution network, 73, 74; and the Shanghai United Committee, 207

censorship: in the International Settlement, 3, 237; of newspapers and periodicals, 13, 306–7; of radio broadcasts, 282, 292, 297

Central Bank, 134, 203

Central China Area Army (CCAA; Naka Shina hōmengun), 158, 159–61, 183

Central China Base (Huazhong genjudi), 92, 96, 111–12; defined, 90–91n2, 95. See also New Fourth Army

Central China Commission for Control of Medicine (Huazhong yiyaopin tongzhi lianhehui), 72

Central China Development Company, 30n58

Central China Liaison Bureau, 30n58

Central Institute for Medical Testing, 76

Central News Agency, 285

Central Plains Bureau (Communist), 106

Central Relief Commission (Guomindang), 193

Central Savings Bank, 194

Cercle Sportif, 265, 267

cereals, 126

CFTE (Compagnie Française des Tramways et de l’électricité): employees of, 222n32, 225n41; 1940 strike, 209, 222–23, 227; after 1945, 272–73

Chamber of Commerce, 163, 184

Chang she, 219

Chang, Eileen (Zhang Ailing): and the feminization of print culture, 12; “Fengsuo” by, 326; first short story, 332; Leo Lee on, 327n4; media promotion of, 337; “Qi duan qing chang” by, 325–26; roundable talks, 342, 342n30, 342n32; and Su Qing, 340–41, 342–44; and Zhou Shoujuan, 332, 332n13

Changshu county, 141

charitable institutions fund, 265, 265n12

chemical industry, 22, 39, 121

Chen Baohua, 200

Chen Bulei, 200

Chen Cunren, 149

Chen Diexian (Tianxu Wosheng), 83

Chen Dieyi, 329, 330, 330n9, 331, 333, 337n21

Chen Fanwo, 280n2

Chen Gongbo: as mayor of Shanghai, 7, 184, 197, 257–58, 267; mentioned, 188, 219, 220

Chen Gongshu, 198

Chen Guofu, 189, 200

Chen Lifu, 189, 190, 200, 201

Chen Liting, 346, 347

Chen Peide, 220, 220n27

Chen Xiaodi, 223n34

Chen Xingsheng, 102–3

Chen Xishun, 173n30

Chen Xiupu, 218

Chen Yi, 106, 107

Cheng Helin, 102–3

Cheng Jihua, 360n14

Cheng Muyi, 76

Cheng Xiaoqing, 330, 332

Cheng Yuzhen, 332, 333

Chesneaux, Jean, 227, 227n45

Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi): and the cross-zone cotton trade, 205; and Dai Li, 135–36; and the Guomindang underground in Shanghai, 190; and labor, 219–20; mentioned, 107, 141, 158, 261; ordered execution of Feng Ti, 133; sought defections from Wang Jingwei regime, 195, 196; and T. V. Soong, 133n86; and Wang Jingwei, 188, 192, 200, 201

“China Incident,” 158

China Industrial Bank (Zhongguo gongye yinhang), 74

China Industry and Commerce Trust Company (Zhonghua shiye xintuo gongsi), 202

China Maritime Customs, 131

China Mutual Aid Association, 162, 162n11

China Printing and Finishing Company (CPF): after the Japanese defeat, 254; 1939 strike at, 216, 236–37, 245; relations with the Japanese, 235, 245; relations with Pudong puppets, 242; taken over by Japanese, 246

China Vegetable Oil Company, 74

China Vocational Education Society (Zhonghua zhiye jiaoyu she), 194

China Weekly Review, 27n36, 30n58

Chinese capitalists: adaptability of, 65; business organization, 48, 55; collaboration with Japan, 9, 31, 60; denounced in People’s Republic of China, 68n4; financial and investment companies, 40, 40n111; “idle capital,” 29, 40, 40n112; before 1941, 47–48; relocation to foreign concessions, 47; relocation to Hong Kong, 29, 31; retreat to interior, 47; and the Shanghai United Committee, 193. See also Rong family; Xu Guanqun

Chinese Communist Party: development of wartime rural base, 91; economic role assigned to Shanghai after 1949, 149; fund-raising for New Fourth Army, 97, 99; in Hong Kong, 73; Jiangsu Provincial Committee, 95; and labor, 212, 215, 219, 219n25; public activity in Shanghai, 97; purchase of controlled commodities, 5; and relations between Chongqing and puppets, 207; recruitment by, 91n4, 106; and Shanghai funü, 304–5; Shanghai underground, 91, 96–97, 100–101, 106, 304–5; strategy of caution during occupation, 307n12; used social relations in operations, 106; writers and playwrights in, 305n4, 347. See also Central China Base Area; New Fourth Army

Chinese medicine, 79

Chizhi College, 161

Chongming, 160n2, 170

Chongqing: as center of journalism and culture, 86, 347; government, 187–88, 200, 202; New Asia Pharmaceutical Company offices in, 69–70; and Shanghai economy, 4, 5. See also Guomindang

Chu Minyi, 57–58, 72–73, 77n25, 267

Chuansha county: and Great Way Government jurisdiction, 170; guerrilla attacks on, 179; merchant strikes in, 180; pacification team in, 159n2; representatives of fishing population in, 175; self-government committee in, 176; town councils in, 173n31

Chun’an: entrepôt for cotton trade, 203, 204; headquarters for Loyal and Patriotic National Salvation Army inspection group, 206

Chunqiu yuekan (Spring and autumn monthly), 332

cigarettes, 119, 122

civil war, 7, 13

Clarke, W. G., 233n6

Classic of Rites (Li ji), 166–67, 169

clerical workers, 91n4

clothing, 128n58

coal, 38, 38n98, 121, 123, 129, 235

Coble, Parks M., 32, 282

Cochran, Sherman, 37n95

collaboration: by British businessmen, 9, 242; in France, 6, 7; ideology of, 169; versus resistance, 6–7, 350, 359; by Rong family, 10, 32, 51–53, 60, 63, 65; and Shanghai capitalists, 9–10, 31; and Western colonialism, 8; and women’s pursuit of daily life, 322–23; workers’ lack of support for, 8–9. See also collaborators; Great Way Government; Reformed Government; Wang Jingwei regime

collaborators: assassinations of, 4, 52, 197, 235; denounced by Communists, 68n4, 305n4; in Liren xing, 349, 355, 356; on radio, 288n36; on Shanghai Municipal Council, 71; terrorist activites by, 4; took bribes from communists, 104–5; women as, 321

colonialism, Western, 8. See also treaty port system

comedy, 289–90, 299

Commerce Control Commission (Quanguo shangye tongzhi zonghui), 63, 64

Commercial Bank of China, 199

Commercial Press (Shangwu yinshuguan), 23, 144

commercials (radio), 290–91

Committee for Popular Movements, 221

communications: between Chongqing and Shanghai, 199; under Guomindang Military Affairs Commission, 137; under Japanese occupation, 118; between New Fourth Army and Shanghai, 92

Communications Inspection Bureau (Jiaotong jiancha ju), 133

communists. See Chinese Communist Party

Compagnie Française des Tramways et de l’électricité. See CFTE

conductors. See CFTE

confiscation: of Chinese flour mills, 51–52; of factories, 46; from Shanghai enterprises, 31, 31n65; of U.S. and British firms, 36–37, 37n89

controlled economy, 6, 11, 37, 217

cooking oil, 121

cooperative industrial movement, 321

Cornet, Christine, 230

Cosme, Henri: and French municipal employees, 268, 270, 272; and French policy toward China, 262, 263, 264; mentioned, 267; and Russian employees in French Concession, 265n15; viewed as supporter of Vichy policy, 268

cost of living, 39–40, 211–12

cotton: futures, 120; imports of, 34n81, 235; Japanese policy on, 34; from occupied China, 121, 129; price of, 30, 63, 143; shortage of, 203; trade between Shanghai and Chongqing, 203–5. See also cotton mills

Cotton Control Commission (puppet), 60, 63, 64

cotton mills: British, 235–36; economic recovery in, 26, 27, 28, 30; Japanese, 23, 23n21, 177; under Japanese military control, 32, 32n66; raw materials for, 34, 60, 62–63, 130, 235; war damage to, 21, 22–23, 22–23n20, 25. See also China Printing and Finishing Company; textile industry

Cotton Yarn and Cloth Regulation Bureau (Shabu guanliju), 203, 204

counterfeiting, 134

CPF. See China Printing and Finishing Company

cultural organizations, Nationalist, 347

Cultural Revolution, 347, 350

culture, ruralization of, 68, 85–86

currency: and foreign exchange, 35n82, 241; instability of, 30–31, 36, 36n87; military scrip, 30; puppet, 35n82, 55, 124–25; reform of March 9, 1942, 125; Shanghai United Committee and, 195


Dachang, 170

Dadao government. See Great Way Government

Da gong bao, 284; home supplements to, 335

Dai Li: agents of, 211n6; and cross-zone trade, 202; and defections from Wang Jingwei regime, 195; and Du Yuesheng, 193; and the Freight Transport Regulation Office, 203, 204; and guerrilla fighters recruited from the Green Gang, 138; and Kong Xiangxi, 134n91, 135; and the Loyal and Patriotic National Salvation Army, 205–6; and SACO, 206; and the Shanghai United Committee, 191; and smuggling prevention, 132–37, 134n91, 202; threat to Great Way Government, 179; and the Tongji Company, 203; U.S. view of, 136; and Wu Kaixian, 201

Dajia yuekan (Everybody monthly), 337n21

Da Mei wanbao (Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury), 32n66, 325, 325n1

Daminhui (Great People’s Association), 216, 218, 236, 244

Dangde shenghuo (Party Life), 215

Daoism, 162

Dauphiné, 269n22

defections: of aides to Wang Jingwei, 195–96; of Chongqing agents in Shanghai, 198; to puppet forces, 206; Shanghai United Committee and, 207; to Wang Jingwei regime, 189–90

department stores, 31

Des Courtils, Louis, 269, 270

Ding Fubao, 79, 334n15

Ding Ling, 305n4, 342

Ding Mocun: and the Committee for Popular Movements, 222; and labor, 211; offered reward for Shanghai United Committee members, 195, 195n25; and the Social Movement Steering Committee, 123, 220, 221

Ding Song, 83

Ding Xishan, 206

“divided city,” 46

Doctrine of the Mean, 165

Doihara Kenji, 211

Domestic Bliss (Xingfu), 336

domesticity: and the public identity of Su Qing, 344; during wartime, 12, 337; and women’s print culture, 328, 333, 344; and women’s role in society, 308n14. See also home journals

Donghai (Jiangsu), 124

Dongshan (Jiangsu), 124

Dongwu University, 333

dramatists, 86, 347

Du Yuesheng: association with the Guomindang, 187; British businesses and, 242; and the CC Clique, 190; and the cotton industry, 203–4; and cross-zone trade, 202; and defections from Wang Jingwei regime, 195–96; exile in Hong Kong, 71, 187; influence of, 193; and labor, 190, 210, 217, 220, 223n34; and leadership of Shanghai Guomindang branch, 189; and the Loyal and Patriotic National Salvation Army, 205–6; and narcotics trafficking, 202; and peace discussions, 200; radio speech by, 285; and Shanghai banks, 74; and the Shanghai United Committee, 191, 192, 193, 199, 201, 208; Xu Guanqun’s association with, 71. See also Green Gang

Duan Hongguang, 204

Duan Qirui, 204

Duban Shanghai shi gongshu (Shanghai Municipal Commission), 183

dyeing industry: destroyed plants, 22, 23; economic recovery in, 27, 28; growth in, 29n51; index of industrial production, 28; in New Asia Enterprise Group, 68; smuggling in, 129, 131


East Asian Anti-Communist League, 179n48

Eastman, Lloyd, 85, 104n27, 201

economy: command, 5, 34n80; controlled, 6, 11, 37, 217; decline of 1941 to 1945, 35–41; in the foreign concessions, 5; monopolistic policies of Japan, 5, 18, 34, 37, 40, 41, 42; regional, 17; revival of 1938–1939, 4, 11, 26–27, 28–29, 34–35, 212n9, 235–36; wartime, 4–5

Eden, Anthony, 246

eggs, 123

Eighth Army (Guomindang), 135

Eighth Route Army, 110, 111

Eighth Route Army Office (Shanghai), 97, 305

electrical power, 36–38, 38n99, 123

Eli Lilly, 76n20

embezzlement, 287, 287n34

Emile Bertin, 274

Employees’ Circle, 225, 225n41

Endurance Club (Hengshe), 190, 193, 199, 202, 203, 219; Chun’an branch, 206

epidemics, 314

escort trips, to New Fourth Army base areas, 101

European war, 35, 198, 237, 240, 242

Executive Yuan, 191, 192

extrasettlement road area (International Settlement): ambiguous status of, 32–33n71; Badlands situation, 234; conflict over sovereignty, 50, 233; factories in, 27, 32–34; policing of, 198

extraterritoriality: abolition of, 229, 251, 258; and British and American neutrality, 2; and Chinese-French treaty of 1946, 274; French and, 257, 258, 268; and Japanese invasion, 240; renunciation of, in 1943, 263


fabi. See currency

factories: Chinese-owned, 24–25; confiscation of, 31–32, 31n61, 46, 64; and cooperative industrial movement, 321; decrease in, from 1937 to 1942, 38–39; distribution of, 21–22; during economic recovery 27–28; in the International Settlement, 21, 22, 36, 64; Japanese, 27, 27n37, 31n65; migration of, from surrounding provinces, 41; moved to inland provinces, 25; in North China, 30n56; opened in February 1939, 33n73; in operation in 1943 and 1944, 39; raw materials for, 34–35; replaced by small workshops, 42; war damage to, 22–25, 25n32, 64; in western Shanghai, 32–34, 42; in Yangshupu, 21

factory workers, 28, 313. See also textile workers

Fain, Baron G., 272

Family Annual (Jiating niankan), 334, 334n15

family firms, 48–49, 59, 65

family ties, 107, 108n35

famine, in Indochina, 126

famine relief, 319n51

Fan Caizong, 210

Fan Jugao, 340n27

Fan Yanqiao, 83n42

Fan Yifeng, 220, 222

Fan Yuzhang, 224

Fang Guofeng, 101

Fano, Pierre, 269n22

Farmers’ Bank, 203

Faure, David, 48

Feng Jiao, 291n54

Feng Shaobai, 106–7

Feng Ti, 133

Feng Xuefeng, 106

Fengxian, 159n2, 170

Fengyu tan (Chats of winds and rains), 339, 339n24

Ferguson, Dorothy, 252

ferry tax, 180

fertilizer, 143, 146

Fessenden, Sterling, 232–33, 233n6

Fiction Monthly (Xiaoshuo yuebao), 332

filial piety, 80–81

film actors, 338n22, 347

films, 299, 346. See also Liren xing

financial companies, 40–41

firewood, 123

five Lius, 212, 212n11

fixers (lulutong), 66–67, 68, 85, 86–87; defined, 66

fleeing Shanghai, 117

floods, 146

flour mills: economic recovery and, 26, 29; and export of flour from Shanghai, 126n46; in Jiangsu prewar, 124; lack of electricity for, 123; number of flour grinders in Rong mills, 50n7; production of, 28; sources of wheat, 59; war damage to, 21, 22, 23, 49–50. See also Fuxin flour mills; Maoxin flour mills

flour stores, 120n18

flu, 128

food shortages, 11, 39n105, 116, 316, 318; in film Liren xing, 350; and surpluses, 146–48

foreign concessions: abolition of, 229, 251, 257, 258, 273–74; access by sea, 2; banks in, 74; building activity in, 30n59; communist activity in, 97–98; economy of, 5, 35, 212n9; labor unrest in, 215–16, 221; and Japanese occupation, 5, 8, 117–18, 261–62, 245–47; movement of plants to, 32; Nationalists and, 14, 129; “neutrality” in, 2, 215, 276; puppet currency in, 124; refugees in, 52; relocation of Chinese capitalists to, 47; as solitary islands, 46, 53, 60, 64, 97; war damages in, 20–21. See also French Concession; International Settlement

foreign exchange, 35n82, 241

Foreign Ministry Archives (Tokyo), 157n1

foreign registration, 53–54, 59, 60–61

Foucault, Michel, 110n38

Four Great Families, 135

France, collaboration in, 6, 7

France Libre movement, 268, 271

France Quand Même, 268

Franklin, Cornell S., 294–95

free clinics, 84

Freemasons, 268

freight transport. See transportation

Freight Transportation Bureau, 137

Freight Transport Regulation Office (Huoyun guanliju), 203, 204

French businesses, 262, 263, 272. See also CFTE

French Center, 265

French community: considered themselves Shanghaiens, 258; divisions in, between Gaullists and pro-Vichy, 259, 268; divisions in, over reemployment status, 266; repatriation of, 266, 270; and the return of the concession, 264, 274, 275; and the surrender of Japan, 272

French Company of Electricity and Streetcars. See CFTE

French Concession: abolition of, 257, 258, 273–74; autonomy of, 261; Chinese administration of, 270, 271; Chinese personnel of, 265; Chinese radio stations in, 292; Chinese residents of, 260–61; employees of, 259, 265–68, 269–72; employers in, 261; French state properties in, 265; Green Gang in, 179; handover to Wang Jingwei regime, 258, 264, 267–68; Japanese access to, 2–3; and Japanese occupation, 261–62; lease of land, 269n24; loyalty oath to Pétain, 268; neutrality of, 276; reemployment of municipal employees in, 269–72, 275; residents of, 260–61; search of Chinese soldier entering, 67; social order in, 263; soldiers of, 270–71; stance toward Japan, 8; transfer to Chinese Nationalists, 274; under Vichy control, 198. See also French community; French Concession police

French Concession police: employees of, 262, 265, 266, 269; Vietnamese officers, 259

French consulate, 269–70, 270n25, 275–76

French diplomacy, objectives of, 259, 262

French Expeditionary Corps (COC), 271

French Municipal Council, 230, 260, 261

French radio station, 272, 275

Frugality Campaign, 316–18, 318n47, 320

Fu, Poshek, 299n103, 319n51, 330n11

Fu Xiao’an: assassination of, 184, 197; mayoralty of, 7, 117, 184, 218

Fujian: blockade of, 29n51, 35; food supplies in, 147; goods from occupied China, 121

Fulihui, 218

fund-raising for the war effort, 316–18, 319

Funü ribao (Women’s daily), 334

Funü shenghuo (Women’s lives), 309–10, 309n16

Funü zazhi (Women’s magazine), 334

furniture industry, 22, 39

Fuxin flour mills, 49, 52, 55, 56, 59–60

Fuyihui (Association for Worker Welfare), 215–16, 219, 221

Fuzhou, 121


Gander, Owen, 246, 247

gangsters: and divisions of jurisdiction in Shanghai, 3; portrayed in film Liren xing, 350; relied on in smuggling goods to Communist bases, 93–94, 109

Gao Guanwu, 142

Gao Xinbao, 190

Gao Zongwu, 195–96

Gaoqiao, 174

Garde Indigène of Indochina, 265

Garden Bridge, 19

Gascogne, 269n22

gasoline, 36, 121, 132, 140

de Gaulle, General Charles, 273

Gaullists, 268

Ge Sen, 138

gender inequality, theme in Liren xing, 355

General Hospital (French Concession), 271

General Labor Union of Shanghai West, 209

General Labor Union of the Shanghai Special Municipality, 217–18

Geng Jiaji, 190

Geng Jizhi, 145, 145n147

glass factories, 22, 23–24

Glosser, Susan, 86

gold, 120, 125

Golden Twin Horses brand, 54

Gong Zhifang, 337n21

gongshu (offices), 183n63

government bonds, 283

grain-boring worms, 144–45, 148, 289–90. See also profiteering

Grain Bureau (Liangshi ju), 144, 145

Grain Control Commission (Japanese), 116n2

Grain Guild (Miye gonghui), 144

Gray, Adeline, 140n117

Great Britain, economic relations with Japan, 36, 42

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, 61

Great Way (dadao), 165, 166–67

Great Way Government (Dadao zhengfu): article on regime’s achievements, 168–69; collapse of, 183–85; dating system used by, 169–70; documentary materials on, 157n1, 164; emphasis on nation-building, 165; establishment of, 7, 157, 162; financing of, 30, 164, 180–83; first appointments of, 160; ideology of, 163, 164–70, 185; Japanese and Chinese role in establishing, 163–64, 165–66, 168–69; and the Japanese army, 157, 158, 176–77, 183; jurisdiction of, 164, 170–77; and labor, 216, 218; manifesto of, 165–66; name of, 165, 166–67, 169, 185; obscurity of, 157–58, 164; personnel of, 185; petitioners to, 175–76; police of, 160, 164, 177–79; propaganda booklet published in Tokyo, 168; recruitment by, 179, 179n50; relations with Wang Jingwei, 220; requested to reopen waterways, 183; set up Society for the Economic Reconstruction of Shanghai, 33; and Shanghai Citizens Action, 52; slogans of, 185; Social Affairs Bureau, 181; Special Service unit attached to, 167; weakness of, 185. See also Su Xiwen

Great Way Self-Government Committee (Pudong), 160n5, 171, 173

Great Way spirit (dadao jingshen), 161, 168

Great World Theater, bombing of, 2, 3

Green Gang: and the Guomindang, 187, 212; and labor, 210, 226; members, 202; Nationalist guerrillas recruited from, 138; representative at Guangcheng pharmacy school, 77n25; and the Shanghai United Committee, 207; threat to pro-Japanese personnel, 179; Xu Guanqun’s contacts in, 71

Gu Jiatang, 202

Gu Jinrong, 225, 225n39, 225n41

Gu Jiwu, 224

Gu Kemin, 71, 77n25

Gu Mingdao, 83n42

Gu Shutong, 138

Gu Zhutong, 205

Guan Lu, 305, 305n4, 334n15, 335, 342n30

Guandong Army, 158

Guangcheng Professional School for Advanced Pharmacy (Guangcheng gaoji yaoxue zhiye xuexiao), 77–78

Guangxi provincial government, 253

Guangzhou, 70

guanxi. See social connections

guanxixue (art of social relations), 108n35

Guanyu brotherhood, 226

guard posts, 118–19

gudao era literary production, 327–28. See also Island Shanghai thesis

guerrillas, Nationalist, 138–39

Gui Fang, 318–19

Guo Lanxin, 193

Guofang zuigao weiyuanhui (Supreme Defense Council), 193

Guohua Electrical Appliances Store, 280n1

Guohua Radio Station, 280n1

Guomindang: anti-Chiang elements, 224; collusion with puppet police, 133; corruption of, 162; criticized in Great Way manifesto, 165; defections to Wang Jingwei, 189; dependence on Shanghai, 17, 85, 187; disillusionment of leftist artists with, 348; and the Green Gang, 187; Hu Hanmin faction, 161; and labor, 209–11, 222, 223, 224–25; military intelligence, 132; movement of capital, 69; national salvation propaganda, 194; negotiations with Wang Jingwei regime, 200–201; on population growth, 314n34; profiteering by, 132; Shanghai party branch, 188–89; smuggling apparatus, 134–38, 202; taxation by, 175; terrorism by, 4, 52, 98; and U.S. imperialism, 359–60. See also Guomindang underground

Guomindang underground, 73, 187–89, 194, 206–7, 212. See also Shanghai United Committee

Guzhen (Chuansha county), 173n31


Han Qitong, survey of China’s war losses, 20n7

Hangzhou Bay, 140

hanjian (traitors), 71, 116, 118n7, 221

Hankou, 49, 53, 70, 73, 264

Happy Home Monthly (Jiating yuekan), 334, 334n15, 335

Hart, Sir Robert, 249

Haruke Yoshitane (Lieutenant Colonel), 141

Hata Shunroku (General), 141–42

Hayashi Yukichi, 239

He Jiayou, 179n50

He-Umezu Agreement, 130

health, terms for, 80–81, 80n34

Healthy Home (Jiankang jiating), 80–83, 83n42

Healthy Home Monthly (Jiankang jiating yuekan), 334n 334n15, 335

Helpful Friend Society (Yiyoushe), 91, 91n4, 93, 103

Hengshe. See Endurance Club

Hengyang (Hunan), 202

Henriot, Christian, 143n137, 144n139, 319n51

Hill, Charles, 252

Hinder, Eleanor, 237

hinterland, connections to, 4–6, 17, 30, 148n158

hoarding, 31, 37, 120, 121, 289

home journals, 333–37, 334n14, 334n15, 344; housekeeping columns, 307–8; and marketing of household products, 335

Hong bang. See Red Gang

Hong Kong: branch of New Asia Pharmaceutical Company, 70; British policy and, 240, 251; capital shifted to, 4, 29, 40n112; flight to, 52, 71, 84–85, 244; foreign registration of Chinese firms in, 54; headquarters of the Shanghai United Committee, 192; Japanese occupation of, 198, 248; Juntong operations in, 195–96, 195n26; and shipping of goods to inland China, 29, 30, 236

Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, 230, 242

Hong Shen, 347

Hongjin jiujia, 124

Hongkou, 20, 21, 22, 23, 234

Hongqiao, 175

Hongye guanggao tushu gongsi (Hongye Advertising and Printing Company), 334n15, 335

Honig, Emily, 289n41

Hou Dachun, 144–46, 144n141

housewives. See domesticity; home journals

housing crisis, 321

Hsü Shuhsi, 21

Hu Hanmin, 161

Hu Linge, 215n13

Hu Menglin, 210

Hu Shaochen, 217

Hu Zheng, 144, 145

Hu Ziying, 309n16

Hu Zongnan, 199

Hua Mulan Joins the Army, 299n103

Huainan district, 92

Huaiyin (Jiangsu), 124

Huang Aidi, 109

Huang Jinrong, 193

Huang Juyin, 287

Huang Renzhi, 193

Huang Ronghua, 137

Huang Suchu, 195–96

Huang Xianggu, 189, 190

Huang Yanpei, 191

Huang Zongying, 347, 349

Huangpi, 217

Huangpu Clique, 191

Huangpu West Fellow Residents’ Association, 172

Huazhong genjudi. See Central China Base

Huazhong yiyaopin tongzhi lianhehui (Central China Commission for Control of Medicine), 72

Hung, Chang-tai, 68, 85–86

Hu-Ning Railroad, 104

Huxi. See Western District


Ichigo offensive, 203

“idle capital,” 29, 40, 40n112

imperialism, U.S., 359

India, 34, 38n98

Indochina: famine in, 126; French employment in, 271; French policy in, 259, 262, 273, 276; French radio station of, 275; French repatriation to, 275; retreat of Chinese troops from, 274; rice from, 144, 237; source of coal, 38n98; supplied rice to the Japanese, 126

industrial production, index of, 27, 28. See also factories

inflation, 122–24, 125, 202, 252; benefit of, to Rong family, 54–55; and workers’ protests, 223

insurance enterprises, 68

International Settlement: abolition of, 251; boom economy of 1938–1939, 235–36; British businesses in, 235; British policy on, 234–35, 238–42; censorship of newspapers in, 306–7; Chinese factories in, 33, 36; Chinese jurisdiction of, 240; Chinese residents of, 242; factories operating in, 27–28, 27n40; Japanese occupation of, 9, 18, 36, 124–25, 149, 198, 243–47, 247–50; Japanese policy on, 234–35; Japanese seizure of firms in, 32n66, 36–37; killing and kidnapping in, 117, 235; Land Regulations of, 239; morale of residents in, 245; parks in, 232; public order under Japanese, 149; radio stations in, 292–97, 294n79; refugees in, 19, 315; under Wang Jingwei regime, 263; war damage in, 21, 22, 234. See also extrasettlement road area; foreign concessions; Shanghailanders; Shanghai Municipal Council; Shanghai Municipal Police

international trade, 42

internment, 8, 251n91, 252, 253

investment companies, 40

Island Shanghai thesis, 6–7, 18, 67–68, 85–86, 112, 252


Japan: food control by, 143–44, 143n137; invasions of north China, 158; monopoly policies, 18, 34, 37, 40, 41, 42; peace initiatives of, 188; return of concessions by, 263; sought collaboration by Chinese capitalists, 60–61; surrender of, 206, 267, 272; use of local resources by, 10–11, 18. See also Japanese army; Japanese navy; Japanese occupation

Japanese army: barred Chinese industrialists from their plants, 31; bought up military materials in Shanghai, 92; Central China Area Army, 158, 159–61, 183; and the Great Way Government, 157, 158, 176–77, 183; and local administration, 177; North China Area Army, 158–59, 160; rivalry with Japanese navy, 183; Special Service Section, 33; taxation by, 27n36

Japanese community, 7n8, 10–11

Japanese companies, 10–11

Japanese concessions, 47, 263

Japanese Military Police (Kempeitai), 104, 118–19, 178, 189, 198, 252

Japanese navy: docks of, 93–94; and the Great Way Government, 7; and labor, 215–16; occupied Shenxin #7, 161; regulation of coastal trade, 140n120; rivalry with Japanese army, 184; and shipments to New Fourth Army, 103

Japanese occupation: attitudes toward, 7; and the broadcasting industry, 280; of the foreign concessions, 8, 117–18, 261–62, 245–47; march into Shanghai, 47; in November 1937, 158; phases in, 117; and public order, 149; seizure of northern districts, 243; treatment of, in film Liren xing, 346–47, 350; women’s lives during, 302, 322–23, 341; women’s magazines during, 303–4, 305. See also Great Way Government; International Settlement, Japanese occupation of

Japanese Residents’ Association, 239

Japanese soldiers, rape committed by, 310–11, 348, 350–51, 358

Jessfield Park Strike, 222–25

Jessfield Road No. 76. See Number 76 Jessfield Road

Jews, 268

Ji Zhangjian, 137

Jiading, 160n2, 170

Jiang Baiqi, 106–7

Jiang Bocheng: arrest of, 201; effort to get Yu Xiaqing to leave Shanghai, 196; and the Shanghai United Committee, 191n12, 192, 198, 201

Jiang Dawei, 107

Jiang Dongrong, 106–7

Jiang Jianzhong, 103

Jiang Jieshi. See Chiang Kai-shek

Jiang Junhui, 60, 63–64

Jiang Shangda, 60–61

Jiang Yixiao, 305

Jiang Zhaoxiang, 224, 224n35

Jiang Zhongfang, 93n7

Jiangbei: considered unpatriotic, 217, 289n41; counterinsurgency activities in, 142n129; laborers from, 217, 223, 224, 225; stereotype perpetuated on radio, 289

Jiangsu, 29, 146, 147

Jiangwan, 170

Jiangxi, 20, 131–32

Jiangyin county, 141

Jiankang jiating yuekan (Healthy home monthly), 334, 334n15, 335

Jiankang jiating (Healthy Home), 80–83, 83n42

Jiaotong jiancha ju (Communications Inspection Bureau), 133

Jiating niankan (Family annual), 334, 334n15

Jiating yuekan (Happy home monthly), 334, 334n15, 335

Jieshou, 203

Jiezhou, 130

Jin Guangmei, 189

Jin Runsheng, 135

Jin Tingsun, 193

Jin Xiongbai, 194, 204

Jin Yan, 215

Jincheng yinhang (Kincheng Banking Corporation), 25

Jingdezhen, 132

Jinmei (heroine of Liren xing), 348–49, 350–52, 358, 360n14

Jiuguo hui (Save the Nation Society), 305n4

Jiuwang ribao, 285

Jobez, Roland, 268

Jourdan, 266

Journal of New Medicine (Xin yiyao kan), 80n33

journals. See home journals; periodicals

Juntong (Bureau of Military Statistics): assassination squads, 197; full name of, 210n4; Hong Kong operations, 195–96, 195n26; and labor, 210; loans to, from Du Yuesheng, 202–3; revenue from smuggling, 133–34, 202; and SACO, 206; and the Shanghai United Committee, 207. See also Dai Li


Kagesa Sadaaki (Major General), 141

Kanegafuchi Company, 51

Kang Xinru, 202

Kangli yuekan (Happy couple monthly), 337n21

Kaufman, Judge, 268

Ke Ling, 328n5, 330–31, 330n11

Kempeitai, 104, 118–19, 178, 189, 198, 252

Keswick, W. J. “Tony,” 235, 237, 239, 242, 244

kidnapping, 34, 117, 136

Killery, Valentine St John, 242

Kincheng Banking Corporation (Jincheng yinhang), 25

Kinloch, Jock, 244

Kipnis, Andrew, 110n38

Kirby, William, 48

Kitaoka Tatsuo, 173n30

knitting plants, 22, 23

Kokyogun (Imperial Cooperation Army), 118

Kong, David, 135

Kong Xiangxi (H. H. Kung): appointed minister of finance, 133n86; and the Cotton Yarn and Cloth Regulation Bureau, 203; and Dai Li, 134n91, 135–36; and peace negotiations with Wang Jingwei, 200; and the Shanghai United Committee, 193

Konoe Cabinet, 158

Kuaile jiating (Happy home), 334n15

Kung Dah Cotton Mill, 177

Kung, H. H. See Kong Xiangxi

Kunlun Film Studio, 348

Kunshan, 141, 159n2


labor: CC Clique and, 210, 220, 220–21n27, 222, 226; communists and, 212, 215, 219, 219n25; Du Yuesheng and, 190; Japanese and, 215–18, 236; native-place associations and, 123, 222, 223, 226, 227; unions, 217, 220–21, 220n26; and Wang Jingwei regime, 9, 123, 189, 220–22. See also Shanghai General Labor Union; strikes; workers

Lan Ma, 347, 355

Land Regulations, 231, 239

Laval, Pierre, 263

League of Left-wing Writers, 305n4

leather industry, 39, 121

Lee, Leo, 327n4

Li Linshu, 224

Li Lisan, 219n25

Li Ming, 242

Li Shengwu, 144

Li Shiqun, 100, 141–42, 142n129, 144, 211

Li Ziqiong, 217

Lian Yuanxiu, 332

Liang Desuo, 336n20

Liangshi ju (Grain Bureau), 144

Liangyou huabao (Good companion pictorial), 336n20

Lianyihui, 195

Lianyishe, 224, 225, 225n41

Li ji (Classic of rites), 166–67, 169

Lin Huaibu, 197

Lin Huiyin, 332

Lin Kanghou, 71, 77n25, 193, 204

Lin Saiwen, 221

Lin Shiliang, 136

Lin Zijiong, 215, 216

Ling Shuhua, 332

Link, Perry, 82–83

Liquidation Commission, 253

Liren xing (Women side by side; Chen Liting): banned as reactionary, 361; conversion to film, 347–48; ending of film, 358, 360; original title of, 348; politics of, 356, 359–60; portrayal of men in, 351, 353, 354–55. 356–57; portrayal of proletariat in, 350, 360, 360n14; prison scenes, 353–54; rehabilitated in 1979, 361; setting of, 348, 348n5; as source on social conditions during wartime, 349–50; stage play, 358, 360; stage production of, 347, 348; stereotypical treatment of women in, 357–58; about women who remained in Shanghai, 346, 348–49

literature: boudoir style, 332, 336; by female college students, 332; gudao era, 327–28; Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies, 330, 328–29; new-style, 329, 330; popularized, 332; post-1945 fiction, 336; resistance, 328; serious and popular, 331, 333; Shanghai school, 329; women writers, 337–38, 340–42, 343–44. See also theater

Liu Buqing, 77

Liu Changsheng, 212, 215n13

Liu Degong, 224, 225, 225n41

Liu Fan, 137

Liu Hangshen, 202

Liu Ningyi, 212, 215n13

Liu Qingyang, 309n16

Liu Shaoqi, 106, 212n11

Liu Shaowen, 212

Liu Xiao, 212

Liu Yanru: memoirs of, 90–91; shipments to New Fourth Army, 91–95, 103, 109; used social connections in sensitive operations, 105

Liu Yusheng, 339n24

liumang (loafers), 159n4, 173n30

livestock, 129

loafers, recruited for pacification teams, 159n4, 173n30

“lone island.” See Island Shanghai thesis

Longcao, 173n30, 175

Longtan, 94

Lou Guowei, 133n87

Lou Jingguan, 220

Loyal and Patriotic Army, 134, 138–39, 140, 142

Loyal and Patriotic National Salvation Army (Zhongyi jiuguo jun), 205–6

Lu Bohong, 52

Lu Boyu, 334n15

Lu Jingshi, 193, 202, 210, 219

Lu Wei, 321n59

Lu Xun, 355

Lu Yan, 330

lulutong (fixers), 66–67, 68, 85, 86–87; defined, 66

Lunchang mill. See China Printing and Finishing Company

Luo Qinghua, 202


Ma Bosheng, 206

MacDonald, R. G., 247

machine industry, 21–22, 27, 28, 29, 39

machinery, imports of, 121, 143

magazines. See periodicals

Mains, Joan, 244, 252

Manchuria, 17, 131, 158, 240

Manchurian Railway Incident, 130

Mandarin Duck and Butterfly school, 82–83, 83n42, 328–29, 330n9; Butterflies journals, 329–30, 332, 333, 334, 344

Manila, 70

Mantetsu (South Manchurian Railway Company), 159

Mao Dun, 285

Mao Liying, 99–100, 99n16, 349

Mao Zedong, 110, 149, 212

Maoxin flour mills, 49, 56

de Margerie, Roland, 198, 262, 263, 265, 265n15, 266–67

Martin, Brian, 85

Martyrs Cemetery, 99n16

May 15 Incident (Tokyo), 61

May Fourth Movement: feminism of, 355, 357; performances in support of, 319n51; politics of, in Liren xing, 352, 356–57

May 30 movement, 212, 212n10, 232, 261

media, coastal and inland, 86

medical publications, 79–83, 80n33, 86

medical workers, 102

medicine: advertising of, 291, 291n54; Chinese and Western, 80; distribution of, 72; factories and enterprises, 39, 68; for the New Fourth Army, 107; from occupied China, 129; pharmaceutical industry, 72, 75; smuggling of, 131; traded by Tongji and Minhua companies, 203n55, 205. See also New Asia Pharmaceutical Company

Mei Fu, 334n15

Mei Siping, 61, 72

memoir sources, 68, 68n4, 90–91

merchant vessels, licensing of, 140, 140n120

Merck and Company, 76n20

metal industry, 22, 37, 39

metal imports, 121

Meyrier, Jean, 269

Mikyo flour company, 59

Miles, Milton E., 137–38, 206

Military Affairs Commission (Guomindang), 134, 137. See also Dai Li

military uniforms, 51

milk industry, 86

minerals, 131

Mingxing ribao (Star daily), 330n9

Minhua Company, 203–4, 205, 208

Ministry of Colonies (French), 265, 272

Ministry of Finance (Guomindang), 133n86, 134, 137. See also Smuggling Prevention Office

Ministry of National Defense Security Bureau (Guofangbu baomiju), 205

Ministry of Social Affairs (Wang Jingwei), 220

Miscellany Monthly: promotion of women writers, 340–41, 340n27, 342n32; roundtable talks in, 342, 342n32; special issues of, 341–42, 341n29

Mitonghui (Grain Control Commission), 116n2

Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, 242

Miye gonghui (Grain Guild), 144

model peace zones, 141–42, 143

“Model Settlement,” 232, 241

Modern Therapeutics, 80n33

modernization, and health, 80

monopoly policies, 18, 34, 37, 40, 41, 42

mop-up operations, 101, 141

municipal employees: Chinese employees of the French Concession, 265; French, 259, 268, 269–72, 275; and the Great Way Government, 163

Municipal Orchestra, 244, 249

Murphey, Rhoads, 17


Nakajima Seiichi, 72

Nanhui, 107–8, 160n2, 170

Nanjing, flour mills in, 124

Nanjing-Shanghai Railroad, 138

Nanshi (South City): chamber of commerce, 181; destruction of plants in, 21; dyeing plants in, 23; economy of, 181; Great Way Government jurisdiction over, 170; pacification team in, 159, 159n2, 159n3; refugees from, 52; self-government committee of, 175, 181–82

Nanshi Electric Company, 52

Nantong, flour mills in, 124

Nanxiang, 170

Nanyang Enterprise Company (Nanyang qiye gongsi), 74

narcotics trade, 129, 130–31, 132n84, 202

National Commission for the Control of Commerce (Quanguo shangye tongzhi lianhehui), 72

Nationalists. See Guomindang

National Salvation Movement, “seven gentlemen of,” 58, 58n24

native place associations: and labor, 123, 223, 224, 226, 227; organizing transportation to the village, 117; and strikes, 222

native-place connections: and the Great Way Government, 163n11; and recruitment at New Asia, 77; used by New Fourth Army agents, 93, 107–8

neutrality: of film character Wang Zhongyuan, 355; of foreign concessions, 2, 276; of Shanghailanders, 215, 240, 245–46

New Asia Biological Research Institute, 76

New Asia Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research Institute, 76

New Asia Enterprise Group (Xinya qiye jituan), 68

New Asia Free Clinics, 84

New Asia Medical Materials Plant, 76

New Asia Pharmaceutical Company (Xinya zhiyao chang): advertising department of, 83; Beijing branch, 72; capital and sales revenue, 69; Chongqing branch, 70, 73; distribution network of, 73, 74, 77–79; financing of, 73–75; identified with Chinese values, 84; inspection teams, 79; left in hands of Gu Kemin, 71; medicine-making factories of, 70, 77; popularization of science at, 75; promotional publications of, 79–83; owned Healthy Home Monthly, 335–36; records of, 68; recruitment at, 77; research scientists at, 75–77; sales organization of, 78–79; wartime expansion of, 70, 73

New Asia Reconstruction Company (Xinya jianye gongsi), 74

New Asia Serum Plant, 76

New Asia Southwest China Company, 70

New Engineering and Shipbuilding Works (Ruirong), 216, 217

New Fourth Army: compared with Eighth Route Army, 110, 111; connections used by, 109–10; donations for, 97, 99; Gregor Benton on, 110–11; illicit dealings with Japanese, 103; in Japanese model peace zone, 142; members of, 93; motivations for helping, 102–4; movement of goods and people to, 92, 94, 98–99, 100–102, 103, 107–8, 109; purchasing agents in Shanghai, 98; recruitment of intellectuals, 108; relationship with Shanghai, 95–96; rural bases of, 90n2; territory designated in United Front negotiations, 95; urban recruits of, 111; used social connections to build rural bases, 106–7; winter clothes for, 96, 97

New Fourth Army Incident, 98, 98n14

New Fourth Army Office (Shanghai), 98–99

New Home (Xin jiating), 334

newspapers: censorship of, 306–7; closing of, 118; columns on everyday life, 325–26; home supplements to, 334, 334n14, 335; after the war, 85; women’s, 333–34

New Voice of Chinese Medicine (Guoyao xinsheng), 79

new woman, 302–3, 353, 360

1911 revolution, 261

Ningbo, 126n46, 126n49, 132, 148n158

Ningxia, 78

Ninth Brigade Theater Troupe (Yan ju jiu dui), 347

Nishimura Tenzo, 167–68, 169, 182

North China Area Army (Kita Shina hōmengun), 158, 160

North China Daily News, 31n61

North China Provisional Government, 72

Northern Expedition, 212

Northern Sichuan Road bridge, 119

North Pudong Garrison Command, 176

Number 76 Jessfield Road: and the assassination of Mao Liying, 99–100; censorship by, 325n1; founders of, 123; interrogation of Wu Kaixian at, 198; mentioned, 4, 142, 149, 220; and rice brokers, 145

Nüsheng yuekan (Women’s voices monthly), 334–35, 334n15

Nüzi shijie (Women’s world), 333


Office of Strategic Services, 206

Ōkawa Shūmei, 60–61

Okazaki, K., 247

Okuba (Japanese yakuza), 215

One Day in Shanghai, 288

Operation Remorse, 253–54

opium, 129, 132n84. See also narcotics trade

Organization Department (Guomindang), 189, 190

overseas Chinese, market for Chinese goods, 54


pacification teams (senbuhan), 159–60, 159n4

padded coats, 128, 128n58

Pan Gongzhan, 285

Pan Hannian, 106

Pan Jinsheng, 281n5

Pan Liudai, 335, 342n30

Pan Yangyao, 334n15

Pan-Asianism, 61

paper industry, 28, 39, 68, 121, 129

Paris, radio broadcasting in, 297–98

Pasteur Institute, 265, 271

patriotism: in films and broadcasts, 12, 299, 356; Jiangbei people and, 217, 289n41; in magazines and periodicals, 12, 304; motivation of civilians helping New Fourth Army, 102; of ordinary people, 359; and profits, 65, 70

peace maintenance committees, 159, 167, 170, 171–72, 175, 176

Peach River Dancing Society, 312

Pearl Harbor, 117

Pechkoff, General Z., 273

People’s Political Council (Canzhenghui), 201

periodicals: Butterflies journals, 329–30, 332, 333, 334; columns in, 332; editorial strategies during wartime, 336–37; letters from readers, 332; and marketing of household products, 335; mentioned, 309n16; patriotism and, 12, 304; pictorial style, 336, 336n20; readership of, 335; women’s, 12, 303–4, 309–10, 328, 333–34. See also home journals; Shanghai funü

permit system, 34, 34n79

Perry, Elizabeth, 226, 227, 227n45

Pétain, Marshall, 8

pharmaceutical industry, 72, 75; female employees, 313. See also New Asia Pharmaceutical Company; Xu Guanqun

pharmaceutical research, 75–76, 76n20

Phenomena Monthly, 330–31, 332

Philco Sales Corporation, 286

Phillips, Godfrey, 239, 248; assassination attempt on, 197–98, 244

pirates, 132n84, 140n120

playwrights. See Tian Han

police: anticommunist activities by, 235; of Great Way Government, 161, 174, 177–79; puppet, 53, 53n13, 133, 198, 244; and rice lines, 127; surveillance by Japanese in the International Settlement, 3. See also French concession police; Kempeitai; Shanghai Municipal Police

Political Study Clique (Zhengxue xi), 73–75

population, growth rate of, 314n34

Postal and Aviation Inspection Office (Youhang jiancha chu), 137

postal employees union, 210, 219

Post Office Savings Bank, 203

poverty, 123–24

print culture, 12–13. See also periodicals; women, and wartime print culture

printing industry, 22, 39, 68

printing presses, 92, 103, 134

prisoner-of-war camps, 139

professional associations, Sino-Japanese, 10

profiteering: by fixers, 66; by Guomindang officials, 132; radio comedy on, 289–90; rice, 126n49, 144–45, 148, 289–90; by the Rong family, 64–65. See also Chinese capitalists

propaganda: national salvation, 194; on radio, 280, 281, 281n5, 283–87, 295, 297

prostitution, 250, 352, 358

Protect China Alliance (Baowei Zhongguo datongmeng), 107

Provisional Council Agreement (1941), 239, 247

Pu Shuxiu, 289, 291, 291n54, 291n56

public intellectuals, women writers as, 344

Public Security Bureau, 235

publishers, 92, 329, 338–39

Pudong: chamber of commerce, 173; destruction of plants in, 21; fate of Shenxin textile mill in, 51; Great Way Government in, 157, 170; Great Way Self-Government Committee in, 160n5, 171, 173; Japanese bombing of, 303; Japanese control of, 139, 139n11; labor incidents in, 216, 236–37; pacification team in, 159, 159n2; police, 53, 53n13, 139; refugees from, 52; rice prices in, 181; smuggling in, 139; trade unions in, 220. See also Great Way Government

puppet government. See collaborators; Great Way Government; Number 76 Jessfield Road; Reformed Government; Wang Jingwei regime

puppet troops, 142


Qian Xinzhi, 193, 200, 202

Qiantang River, 140

Qibao, 175

Qin Shou’ou, 83n42

Qing bang. See Green Gang

Qingdao, 51

Qinghai, 78

Qingpu, 159n2

qingxiang yundong (clearing the villages movement), 141, 142n129

Quanguo shangye tongzhi lianhehui (National Commission for the Control of Commerce), 72

Quanguo shangye tongzhi zonghui (Commerce Control Commission), 63, 64

“Quarrelling Couple from Jiangbei,” 289, 299


radio: broadcasts of political propaganda, 280, 281, 281n5, 283–87, 295, 297; categories in program guides, 288n37; comedy on, 289–90, 299; commercials, 290–91; dominated by advertising and entertainment, 11, 280, 282, 288, 298; donations to war effort solicited on, 286, 287; under Japanese control, 12, 292–99; in Moscow and Paris, 297–98; before 1937, 282; patriotism and call for resistance on, 12; programming under Propaganda Committee plan, 283–85; salaries of performers, 288, 288n39; speeches by prominent individuals, 284–85; storytellers on, 279–80, 285, 299; suppression of patriotic broadcasting, 282; tool for adult education, 287n33. See also radios; radio stations

radio communications, 194

Radio Moscow, 297

Radio-Paris, 298

radios, 118, 118n7, 286, 286n29, 286n30, 287

radio stations: Chinese-operated, 282; closed by Guomindang, 291n55; closed by Shanghai Municipal Council on Japanese request, 296; number of, 282, 291; pro-Japanese, 288n36; operated by Westerners, 282n7; registration of, 292–97, 298; XHHG, 297; XHHH, 284; XHTM, 281n5; XOJB, 288n36

rape, 304, 304n3, 310–11; in film Liren xing, 348, 350–51, 358; of Shen Chong, 359

rationing: of coal, 38n98; of rice, 127–28, 146, 146n152

real estate companies, 41, 42, 68

recipes, 318

reconstruction, 30n59

Red Cross, 84

Red Gang, 220n27, 226

Reformed Government (Weixin zhengfu): Central China Area Army and, 160; dating system of, 170n24; and demise of Great Way Government, 183–84; lacked legitimacy, 188; taxation by, 30

refugees: crossing the Garden Bridge into the International Settlement, 19; and demand for flour, 59; and demand for radio, 282, 286; donations to, 317, 319, 320; experiences of, broadcast by Yan Xueting, 279–80, 288; and food supplies, 120; in the foreign concessions, 237, 258; as smugglers, 129; as source of cheap labor and demand, 47; in South City, 159n3, 181; women, 303, 310–11, 311–13; from Zhejiang and Jiangsu, 29

refugee shelters, 311, 313, 319

Relief for Refugees (jiuji nanmin), 97

Ren Baoan, 179n50

repatriation: of French community, 274–75; of population to the countryside, 39n105

repatriation fund (French Concession), 266, 269, 270, 272

resistance, 13–14. See also collaboration, versus resistance

restaurants, 124

rice: amount to feed population, 119; black market in, 121, 122; exported from free to occupied China, 129; exported to Japan, 126, 143–44; imported by Yu Xiaqing, 196; imported into Fuzhou, 12; from Jiangxi, 131; lines, 350; price of, 119, 120–21, 123, 142, 181, 223; production, 126; puppet brokers, 144–45; purchased by Japanese military, 196; rationing of, 127–28, 146, 146n152; restrictions on sales of, 120, 120n18, 122; riots, 211; Shanghai imports and exports of, 126; smuggling of, 140, 143, 145, 148; from Southeast Asia, 125, 144, 196, 237; in South City, 181; stores, 120, 120n18, 122, 181; supplies of, 146–48; taxation of, 27n36. See also hoarding; profiteering; rice-boring worms

rice-boring worms, 144–45, 148, 289–90. See also profiteering

rice guild, 120

Rice Management Bureau, 121

rickshaws, 119

roads, 94, 118; “road money,” 130. See also extrasettlement road area

Romance of the Three Smiles (San xiao yin yuan), 288

Rong Bing’gen, 53n13

Rong Desheng: and collaboration with the Japanese, 53, 63–64; difficulty controlling firms after death of Rong Zongjing, 49; founder of textile and flour mills, 49; and management of Rong firms, 55–56; plans for Tianyuan Industrial Company, 58–59; relations with Chongqing, 64; and reorganization of Shenxin #2 and #5, 57; returned from Hankou to Shanghai, 53

Rong Er’ren,, 53, 53n13, 56–58, 64

Rong family: and collaboration, 10, 32, 51–53, 60, 63, 65; dissension in, 56–59; as illustration of conditions of Shanghai businessmen, 49, 64–65; organizational structure of enterprises, 48, 55–59; relations within, 49, 55–56, 58; wartime profits of, 54. See also Fuxin flour mills; Maoxin flour mills; Rong Desheng; Rong Er’ren; Rong Hongyuan; Rong Zongjing; Shenxin textile mills

Rong Hongqing, 56

Rong Hongsan, 56

Rong Hongyuan: and dissension in Rong family, 56–58; as general manager of Rong enterprises, 56; and negotiation with Japanese, 61, 62

Rong Weiren, 56

Rong Zongjing: and collaboration, 52–53; death of, 49, 53; departure for Hong Kong, 52; founded textile and flour mills, 49; and the organization of Rong firms, 55

Rottmann, Allison, 85

roundtable talks, 342, 342n30, 342n32

Roux, Alain, 13–14

rubber industry, 22, 23, 28, 29, 39; Tongji and Minhua companies, 203n55, 205

Ruirong (New Engineering and Shipbuilding Works), 216, 217

Ruoying (heroine of Liren xing), 349, 352–56, 358

ruralization of culture, 67–68, 85–86

Russians: in the French Concession, 261, 265, 265n15; White Russians, 233, 249


Saigon, French police of, 275

Sainte-Marie Hospital, 271

Sakurai, Mr., 159n4

Salade, 263, 267

San Bei Steam Navigation Company, 196

San ge modeng nüxing (Three modern women; Tian Han), 347

Sanminzhuyi qingniantuan (Three People’s Principles Youth Corps), 191

San xiao yin yuan (Romance of the three smiles), 288

saodang (mop-up operations), 101, 141

Sarly, Roland, 266, 270

Save for the Distressed (jieyue jiunan), 97

Save the Nation Society (Jiuguo hui), 305n4

Savings Society, 269n22

Sawada Shigeru (Lieutenant General), 141

de Sayve, Olivier, 269, 270

schools, 194

school ties, 102–3, 108, 108n35

Schoppa, Keith, 29

science, popularization of, 80–83

scientific instruments, 39

scientific research, 75–77

scientists, 76–77, 84

second united front, 212

self-government committees (zizhi weiyuanhui): assumed police powers, 173; characterized as hoodlums, 172, 173n30; designation of, 174–75, 175n35; formed from peace maintenance committees, 159; and Great Way Government jurisdiction, 170–71; issues on the agenda of, 174; and the Japanese army, 176–77; membership of, 174; Pudong, 160n5, 171, 173; resilience of, 175; taxation by, 173, 181–82

Seven Big Unions, 220, 220n26

sex industry, 311–12

sexuality, women writers on, 340, 341

Sha Li, 349

Sha Wenhao, 212

Shamian, French concession in, 264

Shangguan Yunzhu, 347, 348

Shanghai: as center for culture and commerce, 67–68, 85–86; as center of film and modern theater, 346; flight from, 315; population of, 146n151; shared victimhood in, 148, 288

Shanghai Association of the Cultural Circle, 305n4

Shanghai Association of the New Medicine Trade (Shanghai xinyaoye tongye gonghui), 71

Shanghai Bank, 54

Shanghai British Residents’ Association, 232

Shanghai chanye yu Shanghai zhigong (Shanghai Industries and Shanghai Workers), 215, 215n13

Shanghai Citizens Action (Shanghai shimin xiehui), 52

Shanghai Commercial Savings Bank, 74

Shanghai county peace maintenance committee, 167

Shanghaiens. See French community

Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury (Da Mei wanbao), 32n66, 325, 325n1

Shanghai funü (Shanghai women): advertising in, 306; cartoon about radio broadcasts, 281, 281; on childbirth and birth control, 314–15; on child rearing, 315–16; class distinctions and, 320; on housekeeping and marriage, 307–8, 313, 317–18, 322; circulation and readership, 306; covers of, 305–6; edited by Communist Party members, 305; as force in the resistance, 309–10, 319–20, 322; on the Frugality Campaign, 316–17; on moral responsibility, 321; on overpopulation, 314n34; political activism in, 321–22; self-censorship of, 307, 308; stories about sex workers, 312, 313; on women’s employment, 313; and women’s role in the resistance, 304

Shanghai Funü Society, 306

Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, 20n8

Shanghai General Labor Union (Shanghai shi zhonggonghui), 195, 210, 218, 224. See also West Shanghai General Labor Union

Shanghai gonghui zuzhi tongyi weiyuanhui (Committee for the Unification of Labor Organizations), 218, 218n22

Shanghai gongye tongzhihui (Association of Shanghai Industrialists), 27n37

Shanghai Guild of Private Radio Broadcasters, 283, 284, 293, 295

Shanghailanders: British policy toward, 240; desire for neutral status, 215, 240, 245–46; disruption of lives during wartime, 243–45, 252; and the end of the treaty port system, 251, 251n91, 254; identity of, 230, 244; internment of, 251n91, 252, 253; and the Shanghai Municipal Council, 231–32, 240–41; strategy for survival, 233

Shanghai Municipal Archives, 157n1

Shanghai Municipal Commission (Duban Shanghai shi gongshu), 183

Shanghai Municipal Council (SMC): Anglo-American conflict, 232–33; autonomy of, 230–32, 239, 240–41, 250; and the British Foreign Office, 232, 238–39; and Chinese broadcast industry, 281, 282; and Chinese residents of the settlement, 233; Chinese staff of, 237–38; collaboration with Japanese, 71, 295–96; compared with French Municipal Council, 260; confidential economic report by, 27n36; constitution of, 232; count of factories in the International Settlement, 27; and the extrasettlement road area, 33, 50, 233; financial affairs of, 232, 241–42; Industrial and Social Section, 237; industrial statistics of, 28n49; under Japanese occupation, 247–50, 252; Japanese pressure on, 3, 233, 234–35, 237; Japanese representation on, 239; personnel of, 232, 241–42, 247, 248, 250; Police Affairs Division, 295, 296; relations with Chongqing, 235; and registration of Chinese radio stations, 292–96, 294n79; report on damages to industry, 20, 21–22, 24; restrictions on sale of rice, 120, 120n18; sale of public utilities, 241; shift of leadership, 232; strategy toward Japanese, 8; and taxation, 233

Shanghai Municipal Health Department, 314

Shanghai Municipal Police: Chinese branch of, 250; Chinese staff of, 237–38, 241–42; under Japanese occupation, 247–48; killings of Chinese demonstrators in 1925, 232; relationship with British diplomats, 231, 238; relationship with Public Security Bureau, 235; sackings of Barrett and Clarke, 233n6; during wartime, 244; White Russians in, 249

Shanghai Newspaper Censorship Bureau, 306

Shanghai Pharmaceutical Students Friendship Society (Shanghai yaojisheng lianyihui), 108

Shanghai Postal Workers’ Union, 189, 190

Shanghai Power Company, 38

Shanghai Radio, 282, 289, 291

Shanghaishi zhiyao changye tongye gonghui (Association of Shanghai Pharmaceutical Manufacturers), 72

Shanghai Special Municipality: Bureau of Social Affairs, 210; Japanese occupation of, 210

Shanghai Textile Company (Shanhai bōseki kabushiki kaisha), 51, 61

Shanghai United Committee (Shanghai shi tongyi weiyuanhui; SUC): and the arrest of Wu Kaixian, 198–201; and assassinations of collaborators, 197; creation of, 191; and economic relations between Chongqing and Nanjing, 201, 208; finances of, 192–93; headquarters of, 192, 199; influence of Du Yuesheng in, 193; instrument of Guomindang resistance and vehicle for cooperation with puppet regime, 187–88; objectives of, 191–92, 206–7; power struggle in, 201; and secret peace discussions, 201; sections of, 192, 194–95; standing committee of, 191, 191n12

Shanghai Volunteer Corps (SVC), 243, 249

Shanghai Women. See Shanghai funü

Shanghai Women’s Circle, 319, 319n52

Shanghai xinyaoye tongye gonghui (Shanghai Association of the New Medicine Trade), 71

Shangqiu, 203, 204

Shangwu yinshuguan (Commercial Press), 23, 144

Shanhai keizai nenkan (Shanghai economic yearbook), 40

Shanhaiguan News, 168, 183

Shao Shijun, 107

Shao Shubai, 210, 211

Shaonü yuekan (The maiden monthly), 337n21

Shashi Cotton Mill, 203

Shawozi, 94

She Aizhen, 144

Shehui yundong zhidao weiyuanhui (Social Movement Steering Committee), 123, 220, 221, 224

Shen Chong, 359

Shen Ji, 330

Shen Junsheng, 138

Shen, Vivian, 348, 352

Shen Youchu, 107

Shen Zijiu, 309n16

Shen bao, 194, 285, 288; “Women’s Garden,” 309n16

Shenghuo, 320n53

Shenxin textile mills: comprised ten companies, 49; conditions in mid-1930s, 55; destruction of, in Western Roads section, 50; distribution of profits, 57–58; foreign registration of, 53–54; independence of general headquarters, 56; in the International Settlement, 53, 60; under Japanese control, 60; in Japanese-occupied areas, 51; number of spindles and looms, 50, 50n7, 53; organizational structure of, 55–58; plan for Greater Shenxin, 58; profits during war, 54; return of, to Chinese owners, 61–62; after return from Japanese, 62–63; “seven gentlemen” of, 58, 58n24; stockholder disputes at, 56–58, 62; unemployment at, 58

Shi Dongshan, 346

Shi Jimei, 332–33, 335, 336

Shi Jiying, 332

Shi Kaitian, 145

Shi Liang, 309n16

Shi Quanfu, 223n34

Shidai Publishing House, 93, 93n7

Shidai Weekly (Shidao zhouke), 93n7

Shigemitsu Mamoru, 263

shimin, active resistance by, 13–14

Shimonoseki treaty, 17

shipping: control of, by Japanese, 30, 182–83; and economic recovery, 34; through Hong Kong, 30; of military materials to New Fourth Army, 92–95; by river in South China, 5; of wheat, 59; Yangzi river closed to, 34

shipyards, strikes in, 216

Shishi xinbao, 335

Shuijing (Tax Police), 133, 133n86, 135, 137

Shuilu jiaotong tongyi jiancha chu (Water and Land Communications Unified Inspectorate), 137

silk industry, 22, 23, 23n22, 24, 28, 29n51, 32n66

silk unions, 218

silver, 55, 131

Singapore: branch of New Asia Pharmaceutical Company in, 70; British policy and, 240; and distribution of medical manual, 80n33

Sino-American Cooperative Organization (Zhong-Mei hezuo suo; SACO), 134, 137, 206; training camps, 206

Sino-American treaty (1943), 229

Sino-British treaty (1943), 229, 251

Sino-French school, 265, 266

Sino-Western Pharmacy, 284, 294

“Sixth National Congress of the Guomindang,” 189

smuggling: by Chiang Kai-shek’s in-laws, 135–36; control offices and guard posts, 134–35; Dai Li’s empire, 132–35; and economic decline, 36; and equivocal marketing areas, 128; of goods and intelligence to Communist base areas, 92–94, 98–99; by Japanese officials, 125; and loss of Shanghai’s economic role after 1949, 149; Loyal and Patriotic Army and, 138–39, 140; by merchants, 129; and migration, 148; of narcotics, 130–31; north China contraband networks, 130–31; between occupied and unoccupied zones, 5, 104n27, 202; official involvement in, 11; puppet forces and, 142; by puppet pirates, 132n84; of rice, 117, 122; for survival and profits, 117; types of smugglers, 129–30; Yangzi River boat captains and, 92, 93. See also rice, smuggling of; Smuggling Prevention Office

smuggling entrepots, 128–30

Smuggling Prevention Office (Guomindang), 134, 135, 136, 202

social connections: in contemporary and wartime China, 110n38; relied on by Communists during wartime, 91, 92, 105, 109–10; and Shanghai’s economic structure, 108

Social Movement Steering Committee (Shehui yundong zhidao weiyuanhui), 123, 220, 221, 224

Society for the Economic Reconstruction of Shanghai, 33

Society for the Economic Reconstruction of the Western District of Shanghai, 33

solitary island. See foreign concessions; Island Shanghai thesis

Song Meiling, 135, 136

Song Qingling, 107

Song Ziwen (T. V. Soong), 133, 133n86

Songjiang, 182

Soong, T. V. (Song Ziwen), 133, 133n86

Sorrow for the Fall of the Ming, 299n103

South Anhui Incident, 98, 98n14

South Asia, 35

South City. See Nanshi

Southeast Asia: British colonialism in, 252; distribution of medical manual in, 80n33; market for Chinese goods, 35, 54; market for New Asia Pharmaceutical Company, 68; New Asia sales agencies in, 70, 78; and the rubber industry, 29; source of rice, 125, 126, 126n49

South Manchurian Railway Company (Mantetsu), 159, 160

Soviet Commercial Publishing House (Su shang chubanshe), 93n7

Special Action Army (Biedong jun), 137

Special Service Department (Tokumubu, Japanese army), 159, 160, 182

Spring and Autumn Monthly (Chunqiu yuekan), 332

Squibb, 76n20

star system, 338n22

Steering Committee of Social Movement (Shehui yundong zhidao weiyuanhui), 123, 220, 221, 224

stock market, 125

storytelling: radio broadcasts of, 279–80, 285, 299; tanci, 288–89, 288n37, 288n38

streetcar workers. See CFTE

strikes: BAT strike of 1927–28, 220; backed by Japanese, 123, 221, 236; at China Printing and Finishing Company in 1939, 236–37; over cost of necessities, 8; in French companies, 263; in the foreign concessions, 221; general, 226–27; Jessfield Park, 222–25; of March 1927, 226–27; of 1939–42 compared with earlier strikes, 226–28; of 1939–41, 212, 212n10, 213–14; by post office employees in 1928, 219; transportation, 123, 209, 222–23; by West Shanghai General Labor Union, 221; of the Workers’ League of the Chinese Republic, 216; wildcat, in 1941, 222; workdays lost to, 212n10, 213, 216

Su Jixiao, 162. See also Su Xiwen

Su Junying, 162. See also Su Xiwen

Su Qing: Drifting Brocade by, 338, 339; and Eileen Chang, 340–41, 342–43; and the feminization of print culture, 12; media coverage of, 337, 340, 342n30; Ten Years of Married Life by, 314, 314–15n35, 338, 339; wrote for home journals, 335

Su Songzhi, 162. See also Su Xiwen

Su Xiwen: announced founding of Great Way Government, 163, 163; background of, 161–62; connections of, 162–63; after demise of Great Way Government, 184; and dissolution of peace maintenance committees, 171–72; effort to control self-government committees, 174; efforts to raise revenue, 180, 181; and Great Way ideology, 165, 167–68, 169; headed municipal bureau of finances for Great Way Government, 179n50; name of, 161, 161n10; photographed with Nishimura Tenzō, 168; target for assassination, 179

Su Youxiang, 161. See also Su Xiwen

Subei. See Jiangbei

sugar, 129

suicide, 349, 350, 354, 358

summer, start time of, 38n99

Sun Liren, 135

Sun Mingqi, 220, 221, 222

Sun Yat-sen, 106–7, 188

suppression campaigns, 141

Supreme Defense Council (Guofang zuigao weiyuanhui), 193

Suzhou, 122, 176


Taicang county, 141

Taixian (Jiangsu), 124

Takeda Chemical Industries, 72

Tamura Toshiko, 334n15

Tan Weihan, 330

tanci (storytelling genre), 288–89, 288n37, 288n38

Tang Enbo, 134, 134n91

Tang Xiaodan, 346

Tang Yunjing, 337n21

Tangqiao (Pudong), 174, 174n31, 176–77, 182

Tao Xisheng, 195–96, 218

taxation: of fish, 175; of goods from the interior, 27; by Great Way Government, 180–81; by Japanese army, 27n36; by Japanese or puppet government of goods brought into Shanghai, 30; of rice, 27n36; by self-government committees, 181–82; Shanghai Municipal Council and, 233

taxi dancers, 312, 319, 319n51

Tax Police (Shuijing) (Nationalist), 133, 133n86, 135, 137

tea, 129

telecommunications, 137

telephone, 118

Ten Thousand Years Bi-weekly (Wansui banyuekan), 332

terrorism, 4, 52, 98, 144n139, 234

textile industry: ban of exports, 36; economic recovery in, 30; enterprises of New Asia, 68; factories in operation in 1943 and 1944, 39; lack of electricity for, 123; markets of, 30n56; raw materials for, 130; textile mills, 49–54; war damage to, 21–24. See also cotton mills; Shenxin textile mills

textile workers, in film Liren xing, 347, 348–49, 350

Thailand, 120

theater, 346; production of Liren xing, 347

Thompson, Edward P., 226

Three Elders of Shanghai, 71

Three People’s Principles Youth Corps (Sanminzhuyi qingniantuan), 191, 207

Tian Han: May Fourth politics of, 355, 356–57; political sympathies of, 347; portrayal of men in Liren xing, 351, 353, 354–55, 356–57; in postrevolutionary society, 360, 360n14; screenplay for San ge modeng nüxing, 348; target of Cultural Revolution, 347, 350, 361; treatment of occupied Shanghai, 350; wrote play and screenplay for Liren xing, 347

Tian Ye, 347

Tiandi chubanshe (Heaven and Earth Publisher), 338

Tiandi yuekan (Heaven and earth monthly), 338

Tianjin: British concession, 229, 236, 251; French concession, 264; mentioned, 234; offices of New Asia Pharmaceutical Company, 70

Tiantang chun meng (Heavenly spring dream; Tang Xiaodan), 346

Tianyuan Industrial Company, 58–59

Tibet, 78

timber, 129

Tinkler, Richard Maurice, 216

tires, 140

tobacco industry, 22, 23, 37

tobacco workers, 210, 220, 220n26, 220n27

Tobacco Workers Union, 210

Tokumubu (Special Service Department, Japanese army), 159, 160, 182

Tong Luqing, 60, 63–64

Tong Xingbai, 180, 189

Tongji Company, 203–5, 203n55, 208

torture, 102, 353

town offices, 175, 175n35

Toyoda Textile Company, 50, 51, 62

trade, between free and occupied China, 47, 85, 121, 129, 201–2

training camps, 206

traitors (hanjian), 71, 116, 118n7, 221

tramways union. See CFTE

transportation: air, 137; under Dai Li, 133, 133n87, 137; and economic decline, 27, 36; goods, 132; permits for freight shipments, 118; between Shanghai and New Fourth Army base, 90–91, 101–2; of weapons, 137–38. See also CFTE

Transport Control Bureau (Yunshu tongzhi ju), 133, 134

travel restrictions, 119

treaty port system: abolition of, 251, 253, 258; dismantling of, 229; draft treaty, 240; and Shanghailander identity, 230

Tsuda, Admiral, 34n79

tungsten, 129


underground. See also Chinese Communist Party; Guomindang underground

unemployment, 58, 123

unions. See labor; Shanghai General Labor Union; West Shanghai General Labor Union

United Front, 95, 98n14, 212

United States: bombing of Japan, 118n7; froze commercial relations with Japan, 36, 42; imperialism of, 359; Japanese fear of confronting, 235; landings of, 188, 205, 206; military strategy of, and Chongqing, 207; and repatriation of French in Shanghai, 275

Urban Work Bureau (CCP), 92

U.S. Consulate business barometer, 26

“using war to nourish war” (yi zhan yang zhan), 116n2


Valentin, 266

vehicles, 22, 121

Vichy government: challenge to, by provisional government of the French Republic, 273; control of French Concession, 198; and Japanese access to the French Concession, 2–3; Japanese pressure on, 263; negotiation of return of Shanghai, 257–58; objectives of, 262, 264–65, 268; relations with Chongqing, 262, 267; relations with Wang Jingwei regime, 262–63, 267

Vietnam, 126

Vietnamese: community in the French Concession, 265; employees of French police, 259, 265

Violet monthly (Ziluolan), 332, 332n13

Vocational Circles National Salvation Association (Zhiye jiu jiuguo hui), 108

Vocational Women’s Club (Zhiye funü julebu), 99, 100


wages, and inflation, 122–23

Wakeman, Frederic, 41, 85, 288, 289

Wales, Nym, 321

Wan Molin, 193

Wang Benpu, 336n19

Wang Bo (Shen Ji), 336n19

Wang Cuixing, 224n35

Wang Fuzhou, 133n87

Wang Jingwei: convened “Sixth National Congress of the Guomindang,” 189; and crime in the International Settlement, 117; draft treaty with the Japanese, 195–96; and labor, 211, 219–20, 222, 224, 227, 228; peace movement of, 188, 206; protests by Shanghai industrialists to, 40n110; secret police of, 219n25, 223; special service organization of, 195

Wang Jingwei regime: assumed administrative control over International Settlement, 263; change in Japanese policy toward, 221n28; contested by Shanghai United Committee, 207; economic policies of, 6, 11, 37, 40, 40n110; establishment of, 218; grain control organs, 116n2; introduction of new currency by, 35n82, 36n87; Japanese efforts to strengthen, 60; and labor, 9, 220–21; order to restore prewar guilds and trade associations, 72n11; and palatability of collaboration, 10; after Pearl Harbor, 117; police of, 198; and policing of the extrasettlement roads, 198; proclamation on return of Chinese property, 61; recognized by Japan, 197; relations with Vichy regime, 262–63; and the return of confiscated factories, 32; and Sino-French relations, 262–63; sought defection of Yu Xiaqing, 196; threat to Guomindang, 188

Wang Jiyu, 305

Wang Kemin, 72

Wang Liling, 332, 342n30

Wang Manyun, 189, 190, 199, 204, 220

Wang Ming (Shen Shaoyu), 212

Wang Shaozhai, 193

Wang Tianmu, 211

Wang Tongzhao, 330

Wang Wei, 138

Wang Xiaolai, 193

Wang Xinheng, 195

Wang Yaokui, 204

Wang Yaoshan, 212

Wang Yuqing, 52, 56

Wang Zhenjiang, 175n37

Wang Zhenya, 175n37

Wang Zhongyuan (collaborator in Liren xing), 349, 353, 354, 355–56

Wannan Incident, 98, 98n14

Wansui banyuekan (Ten thousand years bi-weekly), 332

Wanxian, 131

Wanxiang yuekan (Phenomena monthly), 330–31, 332

war damages, 20–25, 20n7

warlordism, 165

Wartime Goods Transport Management Bureau (Zhanshi huoyun guanli ju), 133–34

wartime Shanghai, depicted in film, 346–47

Water and Land Communications Unified Inspectorate (Shuilu jiaotong tongyi jiancha chu), 137

Wavell, A. P., 252

weaving industry, 27, 28, 29n51

Weixin zhengfu. See Reformed Government

Wen Lanting, 60, 71, 77n25, 204

Wen Yin, 337n21

Wen Yutang, 108

Wenzhou, 132, 148n158

Western District (Huxi): bombing in, 50; crime in, 238; factories moved to, 32–34; grain sales in, 121n24; Great Way Government jurisdiction over, 170; Great Way police bureau in, 177–78; pacification team in, 160, 160n2, 160n4; peace maintenance committee in, 172; personnel lists for Great Way Government in, 185n66; self-government committee in, 175, 185n66; Society for the Economic Reconstruction of the Western District of Shanghai, 33. See also extrasettlement road area

West Shanghai General Labor Union, 218, 220, 221; and the Jessfield Park strike, 225, 226, 227; and the Labor Movement Steering Committee, 224

wheat, 59, 126

White Russians, 233, 249

women: in the communist underground, 349; educated, 312–13, 349, 352–53; life during wartime portrayed in Liren xing, 348–59; moral responsibility of, 321; new-style, 352; proletarian, 348; role of, in state and society, 308n14; sustaining ordinary lives during Japanese occupation, 302, 322–23; and wartime print culture, 12, 326–27, 328, 344; writers, 337–38, 340–42, 343–44. See also domesticity

Women’s Circle to Resist Japan and Save the Nation, 305n4

women’s collective, 358, 360

women’s magazines. See home journals; periodicals, women’s; Shanghai funü

women’s movement, 357

Women’s Voices Monthly (Nüsheng yuekan), 334–35, 334n15

Wong, Siu-lun, 48

wood industry, 22, 39

wool, 28, 121

workers: cost of living of, 40, 211–12; in industrial firms in 1943 and 1944, 39; from Jiangbei, 217, 223, 224, 225; lack of support for collaboration, 8; protests of 1940–1941, 8; and Shanghai politics, 227. See also labor

Workers’ League of the Chinese Republic (Zhonghua minguo gongren tongmenghui), 216

Workers Loyal and Patriotic National Salvation Army Training Squad, 206

working class, making of, 226

workplace ties, 108n35

workshops, 42

writers: Shanghai school, 329; women, 337–38, 340–42, 343–44. See also literature

Wu Chengzhi, 340n27

Wu Haohao, 337n21

Wu Jiangfeng, 340n27

Wu Jingguan, 197

Wu Kaixian: arrest of, 198–201; disciple of Du Yuesheng, 193; effort to get Yu Xiaqing to leave Shanghai, 196; intelligence work in Shanghai, 73; and labor control, 210; meetings with Zhou Fohai, 200; and the reconstruction of the Guomindang underground in Shanghai, 190–91; restored radio communications with Chongqing, 193; and the Shanghai United Committee, 191, 192, 194–95, 208; and Tong Xingbai, 189

Wu Kunsheng, 56

Wu Liguo, 76

Wu Mingyi, 101

Wu Qiding, 107

Wu Shaoshu, 73, 195n25, 201

Wu Tiecheng, 196, 219

Wu Yiqing, 144

Wu Yunqing, 144

Wuhan, 51, 69

Wujin (Jiangsu), 124

Wusong: businessmen in, 46; and Great Way Government jurisdiction, 170; refugees from, 52; self-government committee of, 180

Wusong River, 180

Wuxi, 49, 102, 141, 347


Xian, 70

Xiandai (Les contemporains), 329

Xiaoshuo yuebao (Fiction monthly), 332

Xiaowan, 180

Xie Baosheng, 190

Xin jiating (New home), 334

Xin nüxing (New women), 348

Xin Zhongguo baoshe, 340n27

Xingfu (Domestic bliss), 336

Xinhua, 175

Xinjiang, 78

Xinqun (underground activist in Liren xing), 349, 353, 356, 358, 360

Xinwen bao, 194

Xinya da jiudian, 124

Xinya jianye gongsi (New Asia Reconstruction Company), 74

Xinyaoye zhiyaoye lianhehui (Alliance of the New Medicine Trade and the Pharmaceutical Industry), 72n11

Xinya qiye jituan (New Asia Enterprise Group), 68

Xinya zhiyao chang. See New Asia Pharmaceutical Company

Xinyi chuxinhui, 225n41

Xu Amei: association with Communist Party, 219n25; collaboration with Zhang Kechang, 219, 219n25; and federation of communication and utility company employees, 219; leader of CFTE union, 222–23; mentioned, 223n34, 225, 225n39, 225n41; murder of, 223; wrote chapter on CFTE strikes, 215n14

Xu Baiyi, 334, 334n14, 334n15, 335

Xu Caicheng, 193, 196, 199; and cross-zone trade, 202; and the Tongji Company, 203–4, 205

Xu Guangcheng, 77

Xu Guangping, 305, 305n4

Xu Guanqun: campaign for healthy home, 81–83; as citizen of People’s Republic of China, 68n4; commercial empire of, 78; connections with Nationalists, 73; established branch in Chongqing, 70; financial institutions of, 74; financial transactions of 74–75; flight to Hong Kong, 71, 84–85; marketing network of, 69; memoir of, 68, 68n4; moved equipment inland while maintaining Shanghai business, 69–70; opened Guangcheng pharmacy school, 77–78; political alliances of, 71–73; and popularization of science, 82; positions in International Settlement, 71; relations with Japanese-sponsored Chinese officials, 72; relationships with Communists, 73; return to Shanghai, 85; as self-identified fixer, 9, 66, 68, 85, 86–87; sold medical products to the Japanese, 72. See also New Asia Pharmaceutical Company

Xu Jinxian, 287n34

Xu Sheng, 215n13

Xu Shiying, 193

Xu Zhuodai, 83n42

Xu Ziwei, 205

Xuan Tiewu, 136


Yan Duhe, 285

Yan Xueting, 279, 287–88

Yang Hu, 193

Yang, Mayfair, 108n35

Yang Wei, 193

Yang Xiuzhen, 332

Yang Naiwu (storytelling script), 280n2

Yangshupu: cotton industry in, 22n20, 51; factories in, 21; Japanese closure of, 234; labor in, 210, 215; unions in, 218, 220; war in, 20, 21

Yangzi River, 34n78, 46, 92

Yangzi steam cabin boys’ union, 210

Yan ju jiu dui (Ninth Brigade Theater Troupe), 347

Yao, Chief Deputy Commissioner of Police, 250

Yao Huiquan, 194

Yaoyuan de ai (Faraway love; Chen Liting), 346

Yen bloc, 30

Yexie Town, 182

Yichang, 131

Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu (A spring river flows east; Cai Chusheng; Zheng Junli), 346, 348

Yinhang xuehui (Banking Study Society), 40n111

Yiqianjie (The World of Banking), 24

yisen yosen (using war to nourish war), 116n2

Yiyoushe (Helpful Friend Society), 91, 91n4, 93, 103

yi zhan yang zhan (using war to nourish war), 116n2

Yongda Transport Company, 91, 93

Yorke, Reginald, 244

Youhang jiancha chu (Postal and Aviation Inspection Office), 137

youji dui (roving strike forces), 138n110

Yousheng (factory worker in Liren xing), 351, 352, 355

Youth Corps, 178

Yu Fengjian, 197

Yu Guixiang, 223n34

Yu He, 76

Yu Hongjun, 191n12

Yu Qie, 330

Yu Shaoming, 332

Yu Xiaqing, 126n49, 196

Yu Yaoqiu, 220, 222

Yuan Lideng, 204

Yuan Ludeng, 71, 77n25

Yuetangji, 94

Yūhō Textile Company, 51, 61

Yuhuatai (Jade Flower Terrace) execution ground, 146

Yuliang (husband in Liren xing), 352–55, 356

Yunshu tongzhi ju (Transport Control Bureau), 133, 134

Yuyao, 140

Yuyuan Road Conference (1939), 218


Zaojin, 175

Zazhi yuekan. See Miscellany Monthly

Zeng Guangfang, 76, 82

Zeng Guofan, 141

Zeng Wenqiang, 332

Zeng Xigui, 133n86

Zhabei: businessmen in, 46; Great Way Government jurisdiction over, 170; industry in, 21, 23; refugees from, 52; war in, 20, 21

Zhang Ailing. See Chang, Eileen

Zhang Aliu, 109

Zhang Desheng, 217

Zhang Fubao, 223n34, 225

Zhang Genfu, 93–94

Zhang Henshui, 83n42

Zhang Jia’ao, 74

Zhang Jin’gen, 102

Zhang Jixian, 193

Zhang Junliang, 139–40, 140n117

Zhang Kechang, 189, 190, 219, 220, 221

Zhang Qi, 215n13, 215n14, 219n25

Zhang Qun, 191

Zhang Xiaolin, 197

Zhang Yingzeng, 189

Zhang Yongkang, 225n42

Zhang Yongzong, 215n13

Zhangjiabang, 182

Zhanshi huoyun guanli ju (Wartime Goods Transport Management Bureau), 133, 134

Zhanshi lianhe xunkan (Wartime united triweekly), 309n16

Zhao Dan, 347, 352

Zhao Rudiao, 71, 76, 77

Zhao Yuan, 347

Zhaofeng gongyuan da bagong (Jessfield Park Strike), 222–25

Zhejiang: blockade of, 35; food supplies in, 147; refugees from, 29

Zhen Junli, 346

Zheng Dingwen, 330

Zheng Jiemin, 205

Zheng Yitong, 189

Zheng Yuzhi, 106

Zhengxue xi (Political Study Clique), 73–75

Zhenjiang (Jiangsu): flour mills in, 124; smuggling of goods to Communist bases through, 92, 93, 94

Zhenli (Truth), 215

Zhenru, 159n2, 170

Zhiye funü julebu (Vocational Women’s Club), 99, 100

Zhiye jiu jiuguo hui (Vocational Circles National Salvation Association), 108

Zhong Biao, 124

Zhongguo gongren yundong xiehui (Association for the Chinese Labor Movement), 219

Zhongguo gongye yinhang (China Industrial Bank), 74

Zhongguo gongye yuebao, 34n80

Zhongguo gongye yuekan, 38

Zhongguo Guomindang zhongyang weiyuanhui diaocha ju (Zhongtong), 100, 194

Zhongguo nübao (Chinese women’s newspaper), 333

Zhongguo wuxiandian, 286n30

Zhongguo xin nüjie zazhi (Journal of a new Chinese women’s world), 333

Zhonghua minguo gongren tongmenghui (Workers’ League of the Chinese Republic), 216

Zhonghua shiye xintuo gongsi (China Industry and Commerce Trust Company), 202–3

Zhonghua zhiye jiaoyu she (China Vocational Education Society), 194

Zhongtong, 100, 194

Zhongyang yanjiu yuan (Academia Sinica), 76–77

Zhou Bangjun, 284, 294

Zhou Fohai: established Committee for Popular Movements, 221–22; meeting with Wu Kaixian after his arrest, 199; mentioned, 194; and the Minhua Company, 204; and puppet currency, 124; pursued contacts between Wang Jingwei and Chongqing regimes, 200; and Wang Jingwei, 188

Zhou Guoqiang, 225, 225n41, 226

Zhou Lianxia, 332

Zhou Ling, 332

Zhou Naiwen, 144

Zhou Shoujuan, 83n42, 329, 332, 332n13

Zhou Weilong, 193

Zhou Xuexiang, 210

Zhu Bangxing, 215n13

Zhu Boquan, 74

Zhu Huiqing, 203

Zhu Lin, 347

Zhu Shengyuan, 197

Zhu Wenju, 287n34

Zhu Wenying, 305

Zhu Xuefan: and Green Gang organization in French concession, 179; and the Post Office Employees’ Union, 219; and the Shanghai General Labor Union, 210, 220; and the Shanghai United Committee, 193

Zhu Yuzhen: difficulty controlling self-government committees, 174; established workers’ league, 216; and Great Way Government police force, 161, 179; and taxation, 180

Zhujiajiao, 279

Zilan huapian (Violet petals), 334

Ziluolan (Violet monthly), 332

Zou Taofen, 320n53

Zuo Junzhi (Tamura Toshiko), 334n15





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